She was the authoress of Isis Unvieled, The Secret Doctrine, The Stanzas of Dyzan, and founder
of the Theosophical Society. Theosophy became the basis for many occult
societies who borrowed from it, including an offshoot called
'Arianosophy", most Rosicrucian groups around today (especially the
Rosicrucian Fellowship), The Chaney's Astara of Los Angeles, and
Elizabeth Claire Prophets' Church Universal and Triumphant, to name
just a few. Many members of the Golden Dawn had started out in
Theosophy, and it's teachings seem to have been incorporated into
modern day Spiritualism.

The two hundred fifty pound Russian Medium Helena
Blavatsky started the Theosophical Society 1875 claiming she had made
telepathic contact with mysterious 'ascended masters' in Tibet. She
dubbed herself a 'Priestess of Isis', and combined Spiritualism,
Cabala, Western occultism, Hinduism and Buddhism along with a dash of
Darwinian evolution, to make the whole thing sound 'scientific'. In
fact, most occultists snidely think they are more scientific than
Christians, simply because they believe in Evolution and the Big Bang
(even though many if not most Christians do too!)...while they
also believe in such things as elves, fairies, and magic and carry red
flannel bags with a lodestones to bring good luck. While Theosophists
may not believe in all those things, they do have many beliefs that
most people would find strange.

The Theosophical Society had an alliance with an
organization run by a certain Swami Sarasvati, until the Swami
denounced Blavatsky and her sidekick Ollcott as charlatans, and they
were exposed as such many times. Nevertheless, the society is still
around today. She wrote two occult best sellers, Isis Unveiled
(1887) and The Secret Doctrine (1888), which are still in
print. Blavatsky claimed the ascended masters (humans who are centuries
old living inside a mountain in Tibet) inspired her to write the books
and communicated with her telepathically. She claimed the goddess Isis
herself gave her the ideas for Isis Unveiled. There's actually no real
evidence she actually had any contact with 'ascended masters' or
'Isis', and the bulk of the material for her books is simply
plagiarized from other works.

A skeptic named William Coleman discovered 2000
passages Blavatsky lifted from other books and never gave credit for.
He counted a total of 100 books in all used in the making of Isis
Unveiled, and The Secret Doctrine was discovered to be in a similar
vein, with even entire pages plagiarized from other books! The
footnotes to Blavastky's books were added years after her death by her
followers to help cover up her plagiarism.. The Book of Dyzan, yet
another book Blavatsky wrote, claiming it was the oldest book in the
world, also turned out to be a hoax with many passages copied from
books of the 19th century! Nevertheless, her books are still in print
to this day (Madame Blavatsky High Priestess Of The Occult pgs. 374-375
by Gertrude M. Williams).

Blavatsky was born of Russian nobility. She married
a 50 year old Colonel, but soon left him. She is said to have had
several odd jobs, including a trick rider in a circus, a piano teacher,
and manager of an artificial flower factory. She also became the
traveling companion of a wealthy heiress who had a library of hundreds
of books that she always took with her. This is no doubt where
Blavatsky got much of her material to plagiarize from.

She had been previously been employed as the
assistant to medium Daniel Home, and this is where she learned the
tricks of the trade of Spiritualism. She was not as cautious as Home,
however, and got accused of fraud and exposed as a fake several times
during her career. She set up shop as a medium in Cairo, Egypt, but was
exposed as a fake when someone found a long white glove stuffed with
cotton in the Seance room right before a Seance was about to begin (The
Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult and
Supernatural by James Randi, pg 34 ). She fled Egypt after that and
went to America. Blavatsky's psychic "powers" were proven fake many
times. Once she claimed to have materialized a teacup by meditating
while sitting on the ground. When an observer accused of her of
having buried it their earlier and merely digging up the teacup, she
was treated to one of those blasts of foul language Blavatsky was
notorious for. Another time Blavatsky claimed to have found
a lost broach of an heiress. The heiress accused Blavatsky of simply
buying one that looked like it. Blavatsky denied this profusely, until
a receipt for the broach from a local pawn broker was produced!

Blavatsky decided she needed a better scam than
Spiritualism. At first they called it The Miracle Club, but it didn't
take, since it was too much like Spiritualism. Then she decided on the
name Theosophy instead, and the scam worked....well most of the
time. Once she claimed to have
materialized a teacup by meditating while sitting on the ground. When
an observer accused of her of having buried it there earlier and
merely digging up the teacup, she was treated to one of those blasts of
foul language Blavatsky was notorious for. ( The Occult: A History by
Colin Wilson, page 334) Another time Blavatsky claimed to
have found a lost broach of an heiress. The heiress accused Blavatsky
of simply buying one that looked like it. Blavatsky denied this
profusely...even though a receipt for the broach from a local pawn
broker was later produced by a defector! (Ibid, 334)

One follower (who had apparently been Blavatsky's
assistant in fakery) named Emma Coulomb became disillusioned with
Blavatsky and set out to expose Blavatsky as the fraud she was. Coulomb
passed along evidence which showed Blavatsky to be a fake to the editor
of Christian College Magazine. One revelation was that Blavatsky made
letters from 'Coot Hoomi' (one of the Tibetan ascended masters
Blavatsky supposedly had contact with) seem to magically appear from
nowhere by simply shoving them through cracks in the ceiling from the
room above! Coulomb also revealed Blavatsky had secret passages and
hidden doors built into her house which aided her in deceiving people
about her "psychic abilities". Why did she do this? Well, it's because
she was a fraud and she had no powers and people who follow her
teachings today need to accept this. The Theosophists tried to strike
back, claiming Christian missionaries were behind a conspiracy to stop
them, involving thousands of dollars. The reality is Christian
missionaries never took the Theosophists seriously, and never launched
such a campaign, nor did they have the thousands of dollars at their
disposal as Theosophists charged.

No
part of this website may be reproduced by any means in any way shape or
form without express written consent of the owner. Some
of the materials on this web site are copyrighted by others, and are
made available here for educational purposes such as
teaching, scholarship, and research FREE OF CHARGE. Title 17,
Ch.
1, Sec.
107 of
the US Copyright law states that such Fair Use "is not an infringement
of copyright"(click here to read
it
all).
Links to
external web
sites
do not necessarily constitute endorsements, but are provided
as
aids to research. NONE OF THESE MATERIALS ARE TO BE SOLD. All
HTML is Copyrighted by Uncommon Sense Media. .